Humans on earth have been living on Earth for about 100,000 to 200,000 years. Before all the technology that has been recently introduced for the past few decades, out earth used to be full with many species. These species use to range from the American Cheetah, the American Bison, the American Lion, the Giant Beaver, and many more that you may have not have a understanding of, due to the fact that they use to live many years ago and are now extinct. It is said from many scientists that 99.9% out of all the species that used to live on earth are now extinct. Therefore this states that only 0.1% of species are living presently on earth. The 0.1% that is living on earth presently, can easily be extinct just as the 99.9% that has already been extinct.
With all the negative impacts we have on the environment most species cannot cope with our needs and wants on Earth. For instance, most people are using an extremely high amount of carbon dioxide everyday for transportation, therefore trees have to absorb all the carbon dioxide so that we could have a clean air. The trees have to absorb a high amount of carbon dioxide, but then they are getting cut down, this makes us humans have a negative affect on the biodiversity of our ecosystems. Ask yourself this, wouldn't you want to have a Jurassic Park, because scientists have the ability to get DNA from species that have been extinct and bring them back, the same ability to use another formula than gasoline for transportation, but humans just want to make more money. But think about it, whats the use of a piece of a coloured piece of paper (that were made from cutting down trees) when our world is endangered environmentally? I know many people will say who cares about old species, because new species will be formed, but in reality it would be better for more species to be on earth. It will improve and increase our resources. For instance, if there was more species of bees, we would have an increase in honey.
Species are getting extinct and most humans don't care. I rarley see any mammals at school or at home, and thats because they all live in one certain area, because humans have destroyed their habitat and environment. If you ever go to a tropical rain forest, there are millions of species living there, because they have their freedom, and rarley any humans go there, and if they do it is just to enjoy the view.
Man has dominion over the earth, but that dominion cannot exceed the boundaries of God's laws, meaning that we are stewards of God's creation.
Responsible stewardship includes the following:
Responsible stewardship includes the following:
- Responsible environmental management that includes consideration for the preservation of the ecosystem and provides for basic human needs.
- Not engaging in reproductive technologies that intentionally destroy human life or create human life for experimentation.
The "are" that I have enlarged should have been "should" due to the fact that we should be stewards of God's creation, in my perspective I don't think we have been stewards of God's creation, and I don't believe we will ever be stewards of God's creation as a whole. There might be a couple million people out of the 6.6 billion that will try and help species live as much as they can before they could be extinct but the rest would not care due to the fact that it has been going out for quite a while now. The main reason is the technology that we have influences most people to not see what we have outside of the box, which is are precious nature.
Thus, I hope that we all can try and make a change to prevent any further extinction of animals, and to make are planet Earth a place to be worth living in.
Sources
http://media.economist.com/images/na/2008w41/Species.jpg
http://www.nhm.ku.edu/woodpecker/dodo.shtml
http://www.treehugger.com/cheetah-profile-jj.jpg
http://www.icr.org/Gods-creation/
2 comments:
Good JOb Montes!
Your another one who explained the stewards properly. It's really weird how 99.9% of the animals are extinct now, all because humans do everything there way on this planet. Your right, this is going to have a negative impact on the planet.
Humans arent the only living things on earth, theres other species too, and were going to have to cope with them, and most importantly we have to stop destroying their habitats/shelters.
99.9%? if you think about it, that 99.9% is mainly all those huge giant things with teeth we see in Jurassic Park, you really would'nt want those walking arouns every Sunday morning would you? anyways, the extinction of the dinosaurs is'nt attributed to human interference and scentists are still trying to find out what really wiped them out. BUt you do prove a good point on our affect on biodiversity and how we greatly influence our ecpsystems.
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